Practical advice to guide your path to law school. From crafting strong applications and personal statements to choosing majors, building your résumé, and making smart prelaw decisions.
Internships, jobs, student journals, and many other programs will typically ask for your resume, so it’s best to keep yours in good shape. To help you get started, we’ve rounded up this list of tips to improve your law school resume.
Starting in August, students will have the option to take the Law School Admission Test remotely or in person at a testing center, announced the Law School Admission Council on Monday.
It’s no secret that law school can be a stressful environment. Between the competition among your peers, the pressure to get good grades and the sheer volume of work, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.
In a surprise move, the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates rejected a proposed accreditation change on Feb. 6 to no longer require an entrance exam requirement.
Let's say that you are pretty sure that you want to be a lawyer—but not one hundred percent sure. Or that your LSAT score is ok but ideally you would like a lot more time to try to improve it. Or that you didn’t really have the time to do a legal internship during college. Should you still go straight to law school after college? Or take some time off?
A new study shows that JD-Next, an online course and test for pre-law students, is a “valid and reliable” predictor of law school performance and could be a better predictor for diverse students.
Was I going to be the type of person to let my grandma be on a ventilator alone surrounded by strangers? No. I was going to be the type of lawyer who values her career and her family.
Do Kim, one of UCLA School of Law’s earliest Critical Race Studies alums, is a highly-regarded civil rights attorney in Los Angeles. He started his own practice in Korea Town where he is currently working on several high-profile cases and is also a fast-action attorney for Black Lives Matter.